pacovolume 'cookie monster' video

this video by discograph is fantastic! it combines stop motion animation with actual footage.

PACOVOLUME "CookieMachine" from discograph on Vimeo.

moved

i've moved again. this time to a house that's smaller in some ways. new roommates, others have gone onto their own thing. i miss them terribly.

i'm still not unpacked as i don't have a closet so i need to buy a wardrobe from ikea or something.

champagne glasses are 99 cents each at liquidation world on grand marais, will buy a few for sonia and i's champagne night, whenever that may be.

it's too chilly for may.

i started a twitter, a new one. i can't log into my old one for some reason and it won't let me do the 'forgot password' thing. oh well. it's here. i wanted the username sarahlillian but it was taken already :/

this is such a boring entry, but i did it for tayler. happy? sonia, update yours.

macbook photoshoot

tayler wanted to see my outfit for today. i'm thinking i might take this post down after she sees them though.



collar detail:


peter pan collar blouse - forever21
shelf tank (underneath) - american eagle
jeans - forever21
braided jersey belt - american apparel

marc jacobs gem bobby pin

one of my most favourite things i've ever purchased has been a hairpin for roughly $4USD. but it's not just any hairpin - it's a marc jacobs hairpin! a gem attached to a bobby pin. it's incredible! and how do i know it's incredible? when males my age comment on it. guys never comment on shit like this. put something shiny in your hair and they are all about it.

anyway, i rarely wear this pin, as it's heavy and my hair is very fine and thin...plus, pinning up curly hair in any way is kind of risky unless it's been slept on for about 3 days like mine was today. when i woke up, my hair was tame, but still maintained enough volume and definition for me to not write it off for the day.

anyway, let's get on with it. i incorporated into both daytime and evening styles.

i'm usually against asymmetrical hair on myself (on everyone else it's fine though) as due to the sheer volume of my hair i look psychotic. so, again, the slept-on hair plays a huge part in puling off the pin.


the second style is just a simple updo, though the base of it is closer to my neck than the crown of my head, so i'm calling it a downdo. again, my hair needs to be so tame for this to work. i used a stretched-out elastic because for some reason i am a moron and prefer those over new, tight ones. i pulled my hair back and low into a loose bun and used the pin to pull up the bun a bit...it's placed roughly on the high centre of the back of my head.

front:

awful photo of the back lolz:


here's the pin on its own:


purchased at the marc by marc jacobs shop on bleecker in...2007 i think. i also bought soooo many other little cheap things, like marc totes ($11), a mj icon necklace ($10), silver compact heart-shaped mirror ($5) and many other things i can't remeber right now.

i'm going back to nyc at the end of april with alex and my tax return...! i've already started looking through the special items page on the marc jacobs site! i'm guesstimating at least $60USD will be spent on the little trinkets. i plan on giving a few people (das yew soniabb, das yew bbgurl!) these things as souvenirs - much better than tacky scale models of the empire state building, eh?

spring cleaning

on monday, i woke up for the umpteenth time in a row with a stuffy nose. seeing as how i usually don't get colds, i determined my bout of nasal congestion to be caused by the wealth of dust in my room. i don't have allergies at all, but i would think any large amount of dust does some sort of damage to even the strongest of natural defenses. when i first moved in, i didn't have a chance to sweep before we set the heavy furniture in here, so i took it upon myself to grab the broom and dustpan and set about moving as much by myself as i could. i like to think i did an excellent job, cleaning out the large closet and moving the bed, dresser, wing-back armchair and nightstand. the only thing i couldn't move was the desk, as it is solid oak (?) and has a very large, old and heavy pc and printer on it. luckily i could sweep fairly easily around it.

at the end of my cleaning spree, i amassed a large pile of dust, threads, subscription card from nylon and even a beercap.

i'm not saying my room is messy; on the contrary, it's usually very, very neat and tiy, but i felt an actual sense of accomplishment upon completion.



while cleaning i first listened to some jonathan fire*eater, and then switched to the band that rose out of the ashes of jf*e, the walkmen.

download:

jonathan fire*eater - give me daughters
the walkmen - wake up

new k-os single

let me say that i think k-os is underrated by everyone, including myself. i don't listen to him nearly as much as i should, which explains why i am months behind in keeping up with his new material.

k-os is one man, kevin brereton, a torontonian who's been active in the canadian hip-hop scene for over 15 years. his alias stands for 'knowledge of self,' and he genre-jumps and mixes rap, funk, rock and reggae. he is known to be critical of mainstream hip-hop's glorification of violence, money and fame. whenever i think of k-os, i think of a line from a streets song: around here we say birds, not bitches.

this march sees the release of k-os' fourth full-length album, yes!, and with it the awesome new single '4 3 2 1' (released in december 2008). the video is so good. SO GOOD!



k-os official website
k-os wikipedia

i'm on a boat

ok, the guys from the lonely island are hilarious, and now they've released an album. they've been making the digital shorts on saturday night live (the most popular ones being 'lazy sunday' and 'dick in a box') and managed to get some pretty cool musicians to collaborate with them on their new album, such as julian casablancas of the strokes, t-pain, jack black, natalie portman and others.

here is what i would guess is the first single off that album. it's incredible. my friends and i are obsessed with this song. some have even taken to texting each other some of the lyrics when they're bored...



the lonely island wiki
the lonely island youtube channel

n.a.s.a.

recently, the album spirit of apollo by n.a.s.a. (north america south america) was leaked. i downloaded it and loved it! n.a.s.a. is a collaboration effort of many different musicians spanning different genres spearheaded by sam spiegel (squeak e. clean) and ze gonzales (dj zegon); including m.i.a., tom waits, method man, george clinton, the cool kids and one of my personal heroes, david byrne (former lead singer of talking heads).



below i've made a playlist of three very good songs to give a sampling of the work n.a.s.a. does.

the seed

the seed is a short film by johnny kelly illustrating the life of an apple seed utilizing stop-motion papercraft and 2d animation.

view the video here.
view the 'making of' here.

date with ikea

tonight i'm spending some time on the ikea site. right now, i have absolutely no money to spend on furniture, but it's always fun to look. everything looks so crisp, clean and modern. i imagine my future living room to have a black/white/grey-coloured furniture theme, with an accent colour like cyan blue, purple or kelly green. and dark hardwood floors.

i want to build an entire living room around this chair:





i have soo much to go through on this site.

small thoughts

not big enough for their own posts:

-dumpy-looking ginger girls depress me
-the fact that dillon eats 'mechanically separated' chicken strips disturbs me
-when i went to the bank the other day there was a plaque on an office door of some bank manager named matthew fox, i thought this was hilar
-my room is either too hot when the window is closed, or too cold when the window is open. radiators suck
-i need to start doing project365. i feel like such a slacker, i gave up in june of last year. check out cristina's 365 blog and flickr
-i hate getting complained to about 'routine' - if only because the routine is so GOOD and we shouldn't mind that it IS routine
-i didn't know that microwaving leftover turkey was bad? it dried out
-i could really go for some asparagus right now

i moved

happy new year.

i moved to windsor, roughly 25 minutes from my hometown. i live in a house by the university with 7 other people. i just got my internet earlier tonight thanks to my housemate mark.

it's another housemate's birthday, or rather, yesterday was. we're having a two-day party for jj: friday and saturday night. there'll be a keg, it'll be $10, so i'm considering just buying a few cans of creemore springs from the lcbo for like $8. dillon, being ever so clever, has come up with the idea of $10 for one night, or $15 for a 'weekend pass.'

i love this house, my friends, alex. i have seen him nearly every single day since i moved, and we're not sick of each other.

anyway my room is the biggest one in the house but it is also the most colourful, as it is a nearly blinding orange:

perfect's back

no matter how poor the skills of the photographer are, sometimes the subject can just make the photo.

reason to move to europe #3485

girl in zürich rocking peacoat, black tights and blacker knee-high socks:



found on lookbook.nu

lolviet

my wonderful friend tayler sent me this via msn, and after rolling on the floor laughing my ass off (man, i wish there was a way to abbreviate that phrase) i looked in the corner and saw it was from cracked.com, internet home of cracked magazine. looks like they finally wrote something that made me lol.

remember to click the image to view it larger.

if the world could vote...

found this interesting link the other day.

if the world could vote?

what you do is cast your vote for either obama or mccain in the american presidential election, and then you can view the results. there are votes from 193 countries, over 260,000 votes so far.

the results are very interesting, mainly the results from burkina faso, guatemala and macedonia. the results for iraq don't really surprise me.

i watched a bit of the debate lastnight. i was offended by john mccain during the abortion discussion. he kept using pro-abortion to describe pro-choice; these are not interchangeable terms. i felt him belligerent overall, but to be fair i didn't watch the whole debate (mainly because i forgot all about it earlier that night).

either way, i voted in our own canadian federal election on tuesday and while i wasn't pleased with the results i'm proud of the progress my party made. we gained 8 seats since the last election!

i voted NDP (new democratic party) because i can agree most with them (though they could use more than a little work on the economy issue). i think jack layton would be a good leader; he certainly has more charisma than the others (which i know isn't everything but if you look at trudeau it was instrumental in his success). i mean, layton's favourite movies are STAR WARS! come on! how cool is that?!

he is perfect

he brought me flowers at work, completely by surprise.



edit



he is the best boyfriend ever.

be your own pet broke up

so apparently i am over a month behind in this news. if i hadn't checked the written blurb about them when my lastfm module popped up the other day while i was listening to them i would have never figured it out (as you can tell i don't read too many music blogs).

here is the wikipedia stub on it:

On August 1, 2008, the band announced on their website that after finishing a small tour of England, they would be breaking up.[2] The band posted the following message on their website; "To all of our fans, we are sad to bring you the news that our upcoming shows in the UK are going to be our last as a band. We thank you for all your love and support these past few years. It's been a blast, but the time has come for the four of us to go our separate ways".[3] Jemina explained to NME why they broke up, She said that it wasn't really fun for them anymore, especially Jonas who was considering leaving the band. They didn't want to be in BYOP without Jonas, so they decided the best thing to do was to just call it a day. She also said that its better we split now 'while people still give a fuck' than drag it on and on when our hearts wern't in it anymore. She also quoted a Neil Young song (and Kurt Cobain's suicide note) when she said 'someone once said "its better to burn out than to fade away" and maybe thats what we're doing'. On the brightside though, she said that Jonas Stein and John Eatherly would continue in Turbo Fruits, Nathan Vasquez will sill be part of Deluxin and she was heading to Oslo and Norway to write songs for a Jemina Pearl solo record which she said would be 'a little more mature'.

i've written about BYOP before, actually expounded on my initial hatred of them and how i grew to appreciate them. while it's sad they're broken up i'm concerned about what kind of progress they could have made together anyway. soon they won't be bratty teenagers (hell, jemina is already 20) and that's mostly their charm anyway. you can't be 35 and singing about food fights, beating up 12 year-olds or killing your best friend for fun.

so RIP BYOP! i've included a link to the zipped self-titled debut full-length album at the end of this post.

photos/video from the june 5 show at st. andrew's hall, detroit, mi (i know the quality's terrible, my camera is dying):







adventure:




becky:




links:

wikipedia
official website
myspace
flickr album of june 5 performance
previous byop post




01. thresher's flail
02. bunk trunk skunk
03. bicycle, bicycle, you are my bicycle
04. wildcat!
05. adventure
06. fuuuuuun
07. stairway to heaven
08. bog
09. girls on tv
10. we will vacation, you will be my parasol
11. let's get sandy (big problem)
12. october, first account
13. love your shotgun
14. fill my pill
15. ouch

download

this is such a good thing

the way i feel and the way he is.

back from t-dot

probably one of the most fun trips i've ever had in toronto.

lots of details, but probably won't post till god knows when.